Jimmy Kimmel says Jack Smith’s filing shows Mike Pence was Trump’s ‘Baby Reindeer’

Jimmy Kimmel has joked that Mike Pence was Donald Trump’s “Baby Reindeer” after damning new allegations came to light in special counsel Jack’s Smith’s latest court filingin the federal election interference case.

The 165-page dossier, which was unsealed by a federal judge in Washington DC on Wednesday, alleges that Trump intentionally lied to voters, election officials, and even his own vice president in a “desperate” effort to cling to power. It marks the most detailed case laid out by prosecutors to date, coming after the Supreme Court ruling granted him some immunity from criminal prosecution.

The filing outlines how Trump allegedly repeatedly pressured Pence to stop the certification of the election in President Joe Biden’s favor, against the will of American voters.

Kimmel brought up the unsealed document on Wednesday night’s Jimmy KimmelLive! show, taking a jab at Pence and Trump’s fractured relationship and likening it to the characters in Netflix’s psychological thriller.

“I knew Trump pressured Mike Pence to break the law. I just didn’t know how many times he did it,” Kimmel said in the opening monologue.

“There were meetings, phone calls, text messages. Pence was basically Trump’s ‘Baby Reindeer.’”

In the show Baby Reindeer, a former lawyer develops an unhealthy obsession with an aspiring comedian – which devolves into her becoming a fully-fledged stalker bombarding him with hundreds of messages.

Kimmel went on to pull up a short extract from Smith’s filing surrounding an exchange between Trump and Pence from Christmas Day 2020.

“On December 25, when Pence called the defendant to wish him a Merry Christmas, the defendant raised the certification and told Pence that he had discretion in his role as President of